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This guest house has five spacious chalets with en-suite bathrooms and large balconies facing the reserve. Day and night walks can be arranged with your guide who has good knowledge of some of the endemic and non-endemic flora and fauna in the park. The guest house is run on solar power and there are no plug points in the rooms. Nahampoana can charge batteries providing the weather has been good. The restaurant offers all meals. Continental breakfasts and local Malagasy dishes are served.

Nahampoana Reserve: 
This reserve is situated 7 km to the north of Fort Dauphin (about 15 minutes by road). This 67 ha park has four species of habituated lemurs, Ring-tailed, Red-fronted Brown, Bamboo as well as the dancing lemur, Verreaux’s Sifaka; Radiated Tortoise (Geochelone radiata); chameleons and some birds. This reserve is a botanical garden where you will also see some of the natural vegetation of the dry south-west and the Intermediate Zone. Examples of these include the Octopus tree (Didierea madagascariensis), species of Euphorbia, the Madagascar Triangulate Palm (Neodypsis decaryii), the Traveller’s Palm (Ravinalia madagascariensis) and species of Pachypodium.  In the forest there are waterfalls and natural swimming pools offering quiet and secluded picnic sites. One can also do a short excursion by pirogue through the mangroves.

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